Lotus is one of the most prolific performance brands in the world, mainly due to its efforts to prioritize making a light and extremely balanced handling vehicle above anything else. This shouldn’t come as a surprise when you learn its founder, Colin Chapman, lived by the adage of “simplify, then add lightness.” The result was a range of cars that would usually not be anything special from a pure power standpoint, but could outperform pretty much anything in the bends. Eventually, Lotus couldn’t ignore the straight bits anymore.
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